Much more the worm to whom that man is meat.

To glory some advance a lying claim,

Thieves of renown, and pilferers of fame:

Their front supplies what their ambition lacks;

They know a thousand lords, behind their backs.

Cottil is apt to wink upon a peer,

When turn'd away, with a familiar leer;

And Harvey's eyes, unmercifully keen,

Have murdered fops, by whom she ne'er was seen.

Niger adopts stray libels; wisely prone,